Commentary
June 7, 2026
Carolyn Cooper | Lisa Hanna from bathroom to boardroom
On April 8, Ms Lisa Hanna delivered the 16th Annual Aggrey Brown Distinguished Lecture, hosted by the Caribbean School of Media and Communication at The University of the West Indies, Mona. Her topic…
June 7, 2026
Orville Taylor | Flagging the Cup
We did go for history and go for cup, and succeeded at one. Watching the teams parade, including our infinitesimal Caribbean neighbours, Curaçao and our fellow Africans, the Democratic Republic of the…
June 7, 2026
Garth Rattray | Rethink and rename ‘obesity’
The medical sciences are in constant flux. Understandably, this may cause some degree of scepticism, confusion, and a loss of confidence among some medical practitioners but more so among…
June 6, 2026
Editorial | Navigating complexities of parenting
Christopher Tufton is right to place parenting among five critical pillars to be addressed as Jamaica seeks to reverse its stagnant - and declining - population growth.
For the health minister…
June 6, 2026
Tony Deyal | Cricket tests and quadrennial football – Part 2
In 1950, the West Indies team won, for the first time, against the English! Immediately, one of the greats, the Lord Beginner (Egbert Moore), one of the great calypsonians, came up with one of his…
June 6, 2026
Ronald Sanders | Language is infrastructure - Why Antigua and Barbuda's adoption of Spanish as a second official language matters
Antigua and Barbuda is one of the smaller countries of the Caribbean. Yet, small states have often advanced ideas that have significance beyond their size. The decision by the Government of Antigua…
June 5, 2026
António Guterres | Time to act for our environment and future
This World Environment Day – observed annually on June 5 – warning signals are everywhere.
The past eleven years have been the eleven hottest on record.
And the damage goes far beyond rising…
June 5, 2026
UN Women | There can be no climate justice without gender equality
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation are dramatically reshaping the lives of women, girls, and their communities, increasingly putting at risk their food and personal security,…
June 5, 2026
Omar Wright | Every drop counts: How Jamaicans can help secure our water future
If you have turned on your tap recently and felt the pressure drop or noticed your water bill climbing in the heat of what is shaping up to be one of Jamaica’s hottest years in recent memory, you are…